adidas adizero Adios Pro 3 Unisex Shoes Pulse Mint/Blk | Running Warehouse
out of
5
Stars
Would Recommend
Very Good Marathon Choice!
* Overall:
– Great shoe, has plenty of bounce, they were smart in putting the carbon plate more in the center of the midsole (as a physicist and engineer, I can could write pages on why putting a carbon plate towards the top of a shoe cancels any benefit of softer material underneath it, you might as well be running in a minimalist track shoe). Ran 10 miles right out of the box, no break in required, very springy and easy on the legs. Breathable upper and the fit is true to size.
In comparison with other super shoes, gives as much spring and comfort as the alphafly but does not blob out when running in hot weather. In comparison to the Metaspeed Sky Plus, their is no comparison, the Asics Metaspeed Sky Plus is downright the worst shoe I ran in all year (not just worst super shoe, all shoes AND MOST EXPENSIVE to boot!!) that shoe feels like a block of foam that I duct taped to the bottom of my foot, Viola -> the Metaspeed Sky Plus design in a nutshell!
– At 175 (for this color wave) a good time to buy the Adios Pro 3.
* Negatives:
– Not just this shoe but many other shoes and many other manufacturers, charge sometimes over a hundred dollars more just because of the color choice!? Come on! Really??? I think it looks bad for a shoe manufacturer “rewarding” customers by making them pay a lot of money in the first place and then 30 to 40% more just because a different color wave!!!??? Doesnt speak very well in regards to treating good paying customers right. You start charging 130, 150 250+ for a shoe, give the customer the color they want for the same price! Can you emagine for example paying 15,000 dollars more for a car if you wanted it in red? Well, if the CEO’s of shoe companies ran car companies, you would be.
– Again, this applies to many shoes and many shoe companies, what is going on with having laces consistantly too short to take advantage of the extra lace hole??? The Addidas Adios Pro 3, like 90% of the 20 shoes I evaluated this year, have laces that are too short to use the extra lace hole. So tying a runners knot with the current laces is impossible. Again, this is just kid stuff->poor quality control and makes me wonder if something basic like shoe lace lenght NOT matching the shoe requirements , then what other items are being overlooked or ignored.
Personally, when I buy any shoe, I buy them to use them. I cant understand the “race day only shoe” recommendations at all. Im not going to put a 200 to 250 dollar shoe in the cabinet with my china and only pull them out for special occasions! If I pay that much for a shoe, I am buying them to use them and I expect that kind of price to get me 300+ miles. So, based on the takumi sen 8’s that I have been running in all summer long and are a racing flat version of this shoe, I think that the adios pro should make the 300 mile mark.
